Over the past few months I’ve been hearing about this TV program named Alone. I heard it was a good program and Season 8 had Traditional Bowhunter, Clay Hayes as a participant. I watch very little t.v. because I’m normally doing something. I like staying busy.
Back in the early 90’s there was a t.v. show named American Sportsman with Johnny Morrison. I thought it was a good program because at a time when most of the hunting programs were gun hunting or compound bows, this show had Johnny huntIng game with selfbow.
I wasn’t quite sure what season Clay was on so when I came across season 7, and I started there. After watchIng season 7, I was hooked!
Now, I’m watching season 8 featuring Clay Hayes. It’s really been good so far and I love the traditional bowhunting!
It's as much a psychological as a physical test, maybe even more so...and the conditions are what they are for everyone so there's no advantage/disadvantage. Clay Hayes has done well, the man knows survival skills and seems to have the right disposition. He's the only one with a big game kill to date and seems to take each day with an even keel. I hope he wins it, I like his vids and can-do approach for doing things. And he seems like a good man.
I agree with dmitchell. This sure seems a set up. No bait ( for fishing), no snaring skwerls, no gill netting ( does 45 days make you a resident ), can't shoot bears. What the hell....are they supposed to survive like humans evolved to do or not ?
I’m starting off with season one….. hope for the best. TV anymore 🤷🏻♂️
I lost touch with tv shows when every show was a reality program. This one’s been different and enjoyable.
Dave,
I was just telling a friend today from what I’ve seen from season 7 and 8, you need to setup a gill net to get food while you’re building your homestead.
Setting up snares has been successful for some but isn’t a guarantee and havIng the opportunity to kill an animal is the icing and cherry on the top. If you kill animal you just increased your chances of lastIng longer.
I think I read the reason they’re not killing the bears for food is because it’s banned.
My wife and I have seen every show of every season since it first started. Maybe one reason was that our grandson tried out for the first season, but while he was not selected as a contestant, he was selected as one of two alternates if needed. A very, very thorough screening process was used. I do think that this season is moving a lot slower than the others--nothing much is happening and it pains me to admit it, but mostly they are focusing more than most in the past on shelter building and not on food gathering. The place they put them this time is hard to figure--grizzlies, can't shoot or snare squirrels (a protected species there), and can't set gill nets in the lake until after day 45 by which time the lake will probably be frozen over. They are pretty much starving them out. Hope it improves, but I don't see much in the future for a long stay with so little food.
My wife and I haven’t missed a season since the beginning! can’t wait to get back in town so I can watch the episode I missed Thursday!
I watched two seasons of it last winter on Netflix and enjoyed it. I plan on watching more seasons of it this coming winter. In the summer I have a very low attention span for TV that I have to sit down and really pay attention to. normally I have a baseball game on in the evenings during the summer.